A beautiful vintage for this wine and while it's a bit leaner than the '99 drunk the night before, the still succulent blue/cherry fruit is fabulous and the acidic verve is perfectly judged. The taut finish shows really top-notch complexity with notes of stems, minerals and dark cherry spice. Ready for sure but will hold.
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Complex and fine, starting to drink really well. There’s some pine needle sap, earth and cherry. It is silky of texture. It builds and has sneaky power and length. Lovely balance.
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Still some reduction in the nose, even after sitting in the decanter for some time. But nevertheless a captivating wine with minerality, lightness, and energy -- in short a fine example of Clos de la Roche just now entering its secondary phase. Should be even better in the future. Cellared since original release.
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Subtle red spice and an interesting spearmint note on the nose. Lean but well balanced on the palate. This is enjoyable but not as exciting as I would have thought.
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Floored how young this drank. Would have guessed 2015 or so. Beautiful stem notes, spice, light fruit. Not as complex as expected, but very elegant style.
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The Roots Fund Grand Cru Charity Dinner (Home): 96/99/00/01/08. Not as thrilling as a bottle from the same batch 1+ years ago. This has all the classic Dujac grand cru elements with plenty of spice, stem and pure fruits but just a little reserved, at least on a relative basis.
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Quite meaty and dark with some sauvage notes. There’s floral spice and some pine needle action. It has a core of black cherry and still ample structure.
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Tasted blind, served as a pair with the CSD. Here it is, the million dollar Dujac whole cluster nose. I guessed the producer right, but could say which one was the CDR/CSD. The CSD had a cloudy color with camphor and damp forest floor elements while the CDR was bright and shiny, lots of sour cherry intermixed with cured meat and stemmy elements. Both were very grand, very much in the house style.
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La Paulée de NY Gala Dinner (Pier 60 - NYC): Gorgeous, lifted nose has intense stem notes layered into cherry and earth. Youthfully rich and fresh with Grand Cru concentration. Great vintage for Domaine Dujac.
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Acker 200; 2/7/2020-2/8/2020 (The Pool & Cipriani): I don't really like Burgundy in general although every so often you get one of those ones where the fruit is still there and there's a certain ethereal quality to it and I feel a bit like 'I get it'. This was in that style. Very pretty in nature. Darker red fruits. Good age and I'm not sure it has the chops to go for lots more years without losing some of the pretty fruit although prob a few more just to refine the edges. Enjoyable.
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Wow! Cherry fruit, stone, spice and violet. Very bright and animal. Deep and transparent with bright acidity. Great length with a mineral-driven palate. 94-95
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9th of 12, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, right back on form after a few dodgy bottles, marvellous complex black cherry fruit infused with mineral and spice and that certain Dujac something which I find unique, fine balance and weight, if maybe not the raw power of the very top vintages or the extra transparency of an 02, maturity plateau but good for 10 years at least. VF (18.5).
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Drank alongside 01 Dujac BM and 02 Roumier BM, it was an interesting stylistic contrast. The table had proponents of both. Being about 15 wines into our night of tasting I stopped taking notes at this point, but remember each of these catching my attention from the moment they were poured. concentration, complexity, and length. I preferred the expressiveness of the Dujacs to the craftsmanship of the Roumier which I suspect has many years of development, and I may have ever so slightly slightly favored the 01 Bonnes Mares of the CDLR
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Zachys La Paulée BYO Dinner (Lafayette NYC): Magical, stunning aromas spice, herbs, stem and cross-section of black and red cherry. The palate has so much power and flavor in an elegant weightless package. Long, long finish.
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A beautiful wine, ample and classy. The open-knit nose shows red Pinot fruit, Morey earthiness, and gobs of spice. Clos de la Roche often has a slight sauvage character and I see it here in a subtle truffle aroma. On the palate the 2001 is lithe and racey with softened tannins but still excellent acidity giving solid grip to the flavors of red fruit and spice. Finishes broad but not exceptionally long. I don't see the influence of stems as much here as other Dujac vintages. This is now in its peak drinking window.
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East Bay Burgundy Group - Holiday Dinner Party: This had a more youthful, focused expression of fruit compared to the Clos St Denis, with a Morello cherry character among the other spice and faint sous-bois notes. Very, very good, but I believe it will continue to improve for some time.
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Friendsgiving Burgundy Dinner (Scottsdale, AZ): Served blind I guessed 02, it had a nose of ripe fruit and a touch of sauvage but the palate was drying albeit serious and brooding. The reveal made sense but this was controversial. To my taste this is a superstar, the kind of wine would love to have a case and follow along for years.
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A lovely Burgundy with plenty of structure and power and delicious dark cherry fruit. There is excellent lift to the floral and minty notes as the stems are pretty noticeable here but do not detract at all. Finishes firm and complex with notes of dark red spices and a hint of barnyard earth. A superb CDLR that is aging at a glacial pace. 94+
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Drank double blind alongside the 01 Ponsot CSD. This had a lot of similar characteristics to the Ponsot. The stems and tannins made me suspect this was 01 Dujac which I brought. A wonderful wine right now but just a little bigger and more tannic than the 01 Ponsot CSD next to it. My number 2 tonight and the group number 5. Aka that night when 01 Dujac CDLR placed 5th. A great wine which will be even better in 5-10 years.
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Theme: MSD Grand Cru This has more saturated color than the CSD. Showing more powerful aromas of iron, earth, wildness and darker fruits. Excellent depth and lovely complexity, getting tighter toward the finish.
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La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Pier Sixty - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. All red fruit, slightly mor mature than expected. Very good spice and balance, good length and weight. Probably best to enjoy in the next 5 years, I'd think 10 might be riskier in this vintage.
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Classic black fruit terroir of the Clos de la Roche vineyard, and classic tenderness of the 2001 vintage. This started with a divine floral note to the nose, medium depth to the attack. Then it went dumb. At that point Gene suggested we go to the Roumier! But when we came back to the Dujac - wow, amazing. It had gained weight and intensity, showing marvelous savage black fruit. Lovely.
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5th of 12, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, not as impressive as in 9/14 note and behind Vogue Musigny VV 98 on same night, attractive light spicing to black cherry fruit, fine concentration and length, nice minerality, notably high toned, entering plateau of maturity. F+ (18).
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Dujac CdlR vertical. Delicious. Deep garnet with no bricking. Surprising minerality. Palate sensation is of those semi-ripe wild strawberries. Long finish.
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Complex aromatics of sweet cherry fruit, compost, earth and aniseed. Lovely balance and proportion with a silky mouthfeel. Builds through the palate and has terrific persistence.
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stunning wine just now starting, i think. another 5 years should open some of the aromatics which are somewhat compact right now. but still a total thrill.
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Blackberries and cherries with earth and moss, slightly decomposing. Brown rim. Very good but less so than the last bottle. Probably in a good spot to drink up.
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Dark red with some edge browning. Beautiful nose of black and red cherries, redcurrant, Asian spice, earth. Changed and evolved in the glass. Palate delicious melange of red and black fruits, spice and earthiness with great elegance despite the robustness of the fruit. Fine tannin balance. A delicious CDLR for a birthday dinner !
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Slightly bricked in color. Lots of stem, cherry, some meat and earth aromas. Nicely balanced with some air. Sweet. Delicious. Wonderful now with some air but also with some room to grow.
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This bottle showed big and burly character on the palate, still very tight (had just been opened for ~10 minutes) and in need of many more years of cellar age.
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Morey-St Denis Grand Cru Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Very solid indeed, but this really took a good long time to get going. It was clear that we had a wine of quality from first pour, but it just seemed to lack some charm. It was only after half an hour or more in the glass when this began to show well. I must say that the nose was very nice from first pour though – rather reminiscent of Cote Rotie, it showed a complex mélange of earth and bacon and roasted spice and lots of white pepper against a backdrop of deep, dark sweet cherries. Very nice. The palate started a bit tight and lean, with pure but quite one-dimensional tones of dark cherries and blueberries wrapped around a tight, sinewy core of fine, slightly powdery tannins and good acidity. Bit by bit though, this really opened up, first showing a fine spine of earth and mineral, and then some meaty nuances, then gently compelling notes of dark berries and spice pulling away into a long finish. There was some beauty and grace here, if not quite sheer elegance of the 2001 Lucie & Auguste Lignier CdlR that we had alongside. All in all, a superbly crafted wine, but this needs time yet – 5-6 years at least I think.
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Lusca with Roy Hersh (Lusca, Atlanta): Stunning. Layers of fruit, a little earthiness and spice, fine tannin and acidity that frames and focuses the complex and shifting flavors, it's a joy to experience that can't be given justice by mere words, or at least by mine.
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3rd of 12, perfect fill, not decanted - Slightly translucent dark red not much development, red and black fruits on nose, quite fresh with gamey undertone, assertive, medium palate but very long and persistent, quality fruit, grip and balance, now developing beautifully after tight and difficult youth, just pipped a Rousseau Clos St Jacques 2001 on second night. At least very fine (18.5/20).
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While this wine was quite good, it felt like 85% of what it has been in the past and what it ought to be. All the Roche character marks were present and well-knit, but dimmed. No detectable flaws in any way and we enjoyed this wine over some hours.
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What a wine! What power, what burst of cherry flavor, what spice, what volume, what power (did I say that already), what great wine! Truth must be told; Dujac makes a great wine. Maybe save my pennies and buy only this house.
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Lazy Sunday group Holiday dinner (The Grill Room at Capella Hotel Georgetown): This must be a great Burgundy day as this is also showing so beautifully. Intense jammy red fruits, cherry fruits, sweet spices, flowers, mushroom and earth. Highly toned, nicely delineated and beautifully layered. This wine displays generous forward fruits. Drinking beautifully but will improve.
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(This cork was a seeper.) Higher toned acids than previous bottles and a little more restrained, but plenty of solid Dujac succulence intermingled with that Roche quality.
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Alcohol :: 13% Medium ruby red. Sweet fig, red cherry fruits, savory meatiness, umami and the touch of steaminess which uplifted the aromas and added complexity. Medium - full bodied, the palate is flirting with finesse despite the stunning concentration and power. Medium level of firm but fine-grained tannin that formed the good but polished structure together with the bright acidity backbone. Perfectly poise, with great drive and verve. The mineral infused finished is so long, pure and complex. Wow! All about class and finesse here. 93
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Hudelot-Noellat Dinner with Charles Van Canneyt (Sepia - Chicago IL): Spicy aromatic start with lots of seemingly lush red fruit. Leaner red fruit on plate, also nicely spiced with good whole cluster character. A bit shorter than expected on finish, also ever-so-slightly drying. I preferred its 1998 counterpart in the next glass.
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This bottle was a little taut and not showing as much as previous bottles but still displays gorgeous cherry fruit and an intense minerality that I love but others found a bit much. Based on this bottle, this needs more time. 92+
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Wow, a savage black fruit nose that is vital and very old school. This needs some more time but as it ages it will pick up some weight and stuffing and will be amazing. (Daniel, JAL)
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Black fruit nose, ragged and rough, with hoisin noted. Some firm acidity but sports great chewy fruit density. This wine will not be called elegant anytime soon!
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Still extraordinarily youthful. Dark cherry and blood plum fruits are threaded with liquorice. It breathes to show some floral spice and sweet earth. It is dense but silky and has great posture with a rigid minerally spine. It possesses great balance and exquisite perfume and is very long.
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Wow. Classic Dujac CLDR showing perfectly from the moment the cork was pulled. So pure and elegant, with a seamless lighter than air texture that went on and on. Voluptuous nose of cherry, crushed raspberry spice, broadens on the palate to add hints of cedar and earth, vibrant minerality and touches of dried citrus. Fine, fine tannins that allow the wine's complexity to coat your entire mouth in beauty. Obviously drinks great now! But will age for many years and be a treasure down the road.
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Lush wine with very complex flavors. Barnyard, cedar, spice with minerality on the finish. The group thought this was the best bottle of the variety we tried. The consensus was that the wine is best drunk now, not years later. We had the second wine of Margaux (2000) that clearly was holding back. Dujac was the champ of our Open That Bottle Night dinner
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High-toned nose more fragile than the 1999 Dujac Clos de la Roche - and yet it is very pretty wine with lovely vibrancy. It has a lovely citrus quality.
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Tremendous wine. Still quite young but giving so much. Nose is compact fresh and ultra pure. Was expecting some CdlR funk but none was to be had. Finishes bright and intense. Serious tannins dominate the finish as dose a healthy dose of liquor and persistence. But this is still overall a lean/mean machine that needs a few more years to unwind.
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When Dujac gets it right there aren’t many better things. This is heroically awesome. Bright, crunchy red cherries, a touch of meatiness, a little iodine and all wrapped in a briny presentation make for an outstanding nose. Sweet red fruit mix with blackberry, dark bread, beef bouillon and stones for a complex and supremely layered mid-palate. Lots of assertive tannins and bright acidity on the finish speak to the utter youthfulness of this wine. Showy without being excessive in any way. A tremendous effort, a beautiful wine and something that will be a winner in the cellar for years. It will likely never achieve any sort of legendary status but this is a barn-burner of a Burgundy. 94 with room to grow.
Beautiful perfumed nose of violets and cherry cream. On the palate the wine is high in acidity and still young but the acidity is balanced by classy and pure cherry fruit. This was singing 3 hours after it was opened. A medium-bodied Dujac CDLR that should age effortlessly and improve for 5-10 more years.
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Aromatically - stemmy, faintly herbaceous, faint green tea, and red fruit. On the palate a very nice full sweet red fruit flavors the only problem is a stemy grainy tannin that is just so faint. Without the stems this wine would have been great. This wine was not as good as the bottle I previously had.
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(From half bottle decanted for 30 minutes). Gorgeous bouquet of dark pinot fruit, mocha and earth. Excellent balance and purity with 01 vintage transparency. Hold for an additional few years especially in 750ml.
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Felt it was time to check the evolution of 2001 Bourgognes, and wines from Dujac are supposed to be approachable during all their lifetime (and maybe beyond..?) Well, this one was smiling and ready to go right from popping. Dark and seemingly concentrated, seems like extraction was not minimized. The nose is a beauty, typical PN black fruit aromatic profile with a distinctive green/vegetal touch which contributes to the wine personality. Palate is a real beauty: fresh attack, strong, aromatic mid-palate probably reinforced by the stem tannins to give the wine a compact impact which is not idiotypic for 2001, very long length. A point and a real winner, can be waited a couple of years since tertiary elements (meat, bacon) only appeared a few hours after opening.
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Aromatically - intoxicating nose, absolutely beautiful, roses, pain gril, dried cranberry, plum, a little ripe pear, faint clove, tobacco, and slight stemmyness that made it burgundy. On the palate almost perfect, a mineral flavored mix of raspberry, cherry liquer, and a slightly charred flavor with a dash of stemmyness. The wine is very elegant (medium sized) with a nice mid palate sweetness and a slight dusting of tannin. The color is darker than the 2000 cdlr from leroy, and if I recall corectly darker than the 2002 dujac cdlr. I would give it easily another 7 years as there is a good amount of fruit left and not a whole lot of secondary aromas yet. A apic wine. 96-98
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A touch of vitamin B and plenty of oak showing on the nose. There are waves of dark, sweet plumy fruits and some sappy intensity. It is concentrated and sweet and performing like a cask sample at the moment…way too young!
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Closed down pretty good. Opened with a lot of reduction funk which did blow off. Tight fruit, a bit waxy and mossy. Lots of structure and delivered some pleasure, but extremely awkward.
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Acker Pre-Auction tasting (New York, NY): Tasting, brief note. Lots of expected Dujac spice and perfume with moderate red fruit, moderate intensity. I preferred the Dujac 2002 CSD in tasting.
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Steak night with Scott Manlin (Sammamish, WA): As closed as the Faiveley Echezeaux was, this was THAT open. A total contrast. Sexy and beguiling from first pour, this was Rayas-link in its piercing, kirschy purity. I know, you can't really compare Grenache to Pinot, but this had that piercing element that just smacked you between the eyes, but the palate was pure silk. One of the standout wines of the evening, this was utterly gorgeous.
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Well, the wine is tremendous. Initially showing some heat, but then settling in to pristine and somewhat raw dark fruit, soy, and Asian spices -- all soaring from the glass. Very sappy with an unctuous mid-palate. More air shows big and ripe tannins and bright acidity. This wine is very young (duh!). This should be phenomenal and really special in 10+ years. Don't open it!
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Short and agressive to start. Took about one hour to fully bloom into rich sappy fruit and developed structure. Great notes of griotte, mineral and cocoa. Very consistent with previous (2/1/05). Brought to Bones, Atlanta and delicious with grits fritters to start dinner.
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Wow. This bodes well for where this wine will go. I couldn’t resist popping this one for Phil and we were all awestruck. Great primary griotte fruit with layers of mild oak, currants, chalk and bramble. A couple of hours open revealed deeper layers of earth and Roche meaty/rocky balance. Maybe infanticide, but rewarding.
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Somewhat closed but structured for a Dujac. Tons of material. Persistent on the palate. Nose is loaded with blackberries and some earth. It is a little muted and closed. The palate is tannic but the finish is long. The end of the finish gives a glimpse of the wonderful future. Earthy blackberry finish. This wine has a big upside above 94. Tremendous CdRoche.
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4/20/2024 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
A beautiful vintage for this wine and while it's a bit leaner than the '99 drunk the night before, the still succulent blue/cherry fruit is fabulous and the acidic verve is perfectly judged. The taut finish shows really top-notch complexity with notes of stems, minerals and dark cherry spice. Ready for sure but will hold.
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3/17/2024 - LLouis wrote: 95 Points
opened 2,5hr before, at first nice nose and complex layers of dry flowers; pure balck fruit with chinese herbs finish
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1/10/2024 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Autumnal floral aromatics. Freshens, gains clarity over time. Compact, balanced palate.
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11/16/2023 - hprphf wrote: 94 Points
Premier Cru Table (The Fifth Avenue Hotel): Resolved showing great red fruit aromatics. Super lovely. 94
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11/8/2023 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Cherry soda aromatics. Serene, red fruited.
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9/22/2023 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Reductive and floral, stemmy feel. Balanced, sweet palate.
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6/18/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Complex and fine, starting to drink really well. There’s some pine needle sap, earth and cherry. It is silky of texture. It builds and has sneaky power and length. Lovely balance.
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12/6/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points
Salon Focofi Paris walkabout and dinner, so no detailed tasting notes. From Jero. Still a bit closed. Elegant, light, fragrant.
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11/22/2022 - cfk49 wrote: 94 Points
Still some reduction in the nose, even after sitting in the decanter for some time. But nevertheless a captivating wine with minerality, lightness, and energy -- in short a fine example of Clos de la Roche just now entering its secondary phase. Should be even better in the future. Cellared since original release.
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11/20/2022 - johnh1001 wrote: 92 Points
Subtle red spice and an interesting spearmint note on the nose. Lean but well balanced on the palate. This is enjoyable but not as exciting as I would have thought.
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7/29/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: 95 Points
Pretty raspberry, star anise, fresh yet with developing tertiary nuance.
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2/3/2022 - GTFreek wrote:
Floored how young this drank. Would have guessed 2015 or so. Beautiful stem notes, spice, light fruit. Not as complex as expected, but very elegant style.
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1/30/2022 - lepetitchateau wrote: 94 Points
Versus the Leroy, this has more finesse but less density and umph.
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12/24/2021 - lepetitchateau wrote: 95 Points
Interesting how the 2001 vintage fluctuates between tender, high-toned elegance and denser elements… this bottle showed more of the tender qualities.
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7/16/2021 - godx wrote: flawed
Corked.
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7/16/2021 - The Vines That Bind wrote: flawed
Corked.
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6/19/2021 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points
The Roots Fund Grand Cru Charity Dinner (Home): 96/99/00/01/08. Not as thrilling as a bottle from the same batch 1+ years ago. This has all the classic Dujac grand cru elements with plenty of spice, stem and pure fruits but just a little reserved, at least on a relative basis.
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6/19/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
The Roots Fund Charity Grand Cru Dinner (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): In vertical. Nicely spiced with bright red fruit in a leaner style vs the 1999 and 2000, but very good length, even if ending ever-so-slightly more firmly than would be ideal.
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5/10/2021 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Quite meaty and dark with some sauvage notes. There’s floral spice and some pine needle action. It has a core of black cherry and still ample structure.
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3/12/2021 - Collector1855 wrote: 97 Points
Tasted blind, served as a pair with the CSD. Here it is, the million dollar Dujac whole cluster nose. I guessed the producer right, but could say which one was the CDR/CSD. The CSD had a cloudy color with camphor and damp forest floor elements while the CDR was bright and shiny, lots of sour cherry intermixed with cured meat and stemmy elements. Both were very grand, very much in the house style.
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3/7/2020 - Nanda wrote: 98 Points
La Paulée de NY Gala Dinner (Pier 60 - NYC): Gorgeous, lifted nose has intense stem notes layered into cherry and earth. Youthfully rich and fresh with Grand Cru concentration. Great vintage for Domaine Dujac.
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3/7/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. Very attractive combination of red cherry and berry, sweet spice, earth and leather. Not the most powerful example of Clos de la Roche with good length.
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2/22/2020 - ricknat1 wrote: flawed
Corked
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2/8/2020 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Acker 200; 2/7/2020-2/8/2020 (The Pool & Cipriani): I don't really like Burgundy in general although every so often you get one of those ones where the fruit is still there and there's a certain ethereal quality to it and I feel a bit like 'I get it'. This was in that style. Very pretty in nature. Darker red fruits. Good age and I'm not sure it has the chops to go for lots more years without losing some of the pretty fruit although prob a few more just to refine the edges. Enjoyable.
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2/7/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Wines for the Acker Merrall Bicentennial Auction (The Pool - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. Equal amount of red fruit, spice and earth with great textures. Grand Cru density. But firm finish. Upside?
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10/29/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
Wow! Cherry fruit, stone, spice and violet. Very bright and animal. Deep and transparent with bright acidity. Great length with a mineral-driven palate. 94-95
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7/4/2019 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
9th of 12, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, right back on form after a few dodgy bottles, marvellous complex black cherry fruit infused with mineral and spice and that certain Dujac something which I find unique, fine balance and weight, if maybe not the raw power of the very top vintages or the extra transparency of an 02, maturity plateau but good for 10 years at least. VF (18.5).
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5/8/2019 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Cherry aromas, very different and darker profile than 2002. Clean palate that feels a touch ripe.
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3/8/2019 - kr522 wrote: 95 Points
Drank alongside 01 Dujac BM and 02 Roumier BM, it was an interesting stylistic contrast. The table had proponents of both. Being about 15 wines into our night of tasting I stopped taking notes at this point, but remember each of these catching my attention from the moment they were poured. concentration, complexity, and length. I preferred the expressiveness of the Dujacs to the craftsmanship of the Roumier which I suspect has many years of development, and I may have ever so slightly slightly favored the 01 Bonnes Mares of the CDLR
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3/7/2019 - Nanda wrote: 98 Points
Zachys La Paulée BYO Dinner (Lafayette NYC): Magical, stunning aromas spice, herbs, stem and cross-section of black and red cherry. The palate has so much power and flavor in an elegant weightless package. Long, long finish.
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3/7/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Zachys La Paulée "Warm-up" Dinner (Lafayette - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. Nicely mature red fruit with sweet and savory spice. Good+ weight and better complexity. Enjoy near-term.
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2/21/2019 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Spice bouquet just beginning to unfurl. Smooth palate.
Good bottle. Certainly upside here. 93-94
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1/19/2019 - rlove wrote: 93 Points
A beautiful wine, ample and classy. The open-knit nose shows red Pinot fruit, Morey earthiness, and gobs of spice. Clos de la Roche often has a slight sauvage character and I see it here in a subtle truffle aroma. On the palate the 2001 is lithe and racey with softened tannins but still excellent acidity giving solid grip to the flavors of red fruit and spice. Finishes broad but not exceptionally long. I don't see the influence of stems as much here as other Dujac vintages. This is now in its peak drinking window.
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12/15/2018 - soyhead wrote:
East Bay Burgundy Group - Holiday Dinner Party (Chez R&G): nose - cassis
mouth - red fruit, more pure than the 01 clos st denis. lovely
my abridged notes means its getting late in the evening
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12/15/2018 - 5laton wrote:
East Bay Burgundy Group - Holiday Dinner Party: This had a more youthful, focused expression of fruit compared to the Clos St Denis, with a Morello cherry character among the other spice and faint sous-bois notes. Very, very good, but I believe it will continue to improve for some time.
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11/23/2018 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Friendsgiving Burgundy Dinner (Scottsdale, AZ): Served blind I guessed 02, it had a nose of ripe fruit and a touch of sauvage but the palate was drying albeit serious and brooding. The reveal made sense but this was controversial. To my taste this is a superstar, the kind of wine would love to have a case and follow along for years.
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11/18/2018 - liber wrote: flawed
8th of 12 and CORKED - 2nd in case Grrrrrh!!!! - piss poor Jeremy!
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11/15/2018 - BradE wrote:
Drank well, as did all three Dujac's tonight. Like the 99 CSD, this took some time to open up.
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10/16/2018 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
A lovely Burgundy with plenty of structure and power and delicious dark cherry fruit. There is excellent lift to the floral and minty notes as the stems are pretty noticeable here but do not detract at all. Finishes firm and complex with notes of dark red spices and a hint of barnyard earth. A superb CDLR that is aging at a glacial pace. 94+
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9/20/2018 - FYC wrote:
Drank double blind alongside the 01 Ponsot CSD. This had a lot of similar characteristics to the Ponsot. The stems and tannins made me suspect this was 01 Dujac which I brought. A wonderful wine right now but just a little bigger and more tannic than the 01 Ponsot CSD next to it. My number 2 tonight and the group number 5. Aka that night when 01 Dujac CDLR placed 5th. A great wine which will be even better in 5-10 years.
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10/6/2017 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Theme: MSD Grand Cru
This has more saturated color than the CSD. Showing more powerful aromas of iron, earth, wildness and darker fruits. Excellent depth and lovely complexity, getting tighter toward the finish.
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10/6/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:
MSD GC theme'd dinner @ Summer Pavilion.
TBU...
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4/22/2017 - fcxj wrote: 88 Points
Bottle was a little off.
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4/15/2017 - jlm wrote:
From memory: this was still very young in 2017. Quality is obvious, but it needed time for the fruit and tannins to continue to meld.
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3/11/2017 - tinybubbles wrote: 92 Points
Tight and tannic, this needs more time, although the fruit and acid seem to have mellowed in advance of the tannins.
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3/11/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Pier Sixty - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. All red fruit, slightly mor mature than expected. Very good spice and balance, good length and weight. Probably best to enjoy in the next 5 years, I'd think 10 might be riskier in this vintage.
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1/21/2017 - lepetitchateau wrote: 96 Points
Classic black fruit terroir of the Clos de la Roche vineyard, and classic tenderness of the 2001 vintage. This started with a divine floral note to the nose, medium depth to the attack. Then it went dumb. At that point Gene suggested we go to the Roumier! But when we came back to the Dujac - wow, amazing. It had gained weight and intensity, showing marvelous savage black fruit. Lovely.
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11/25/2016 - liber Likes this wine: 94 Points
5th of 12, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, not as impressive as in 9/14 note and behind Vogue Musigny VV 98 on same night, attractive light spicing to black cherry fruit, fine concentration and length, nice minerality, notably high toned, entering plateau of maturity. F+ (18).
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10/1/2016 - Chuck Miller wrote: flawed
Corked. FML
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9/23/2016 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Dujac CdlR vertical. Delicious. Deep garnet with no bricking. Surprising minerality. Palate sensation is of those semi-ripe wild strawberries. Long finish.
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7/5/2016 - liber wrote: flawed
4th of 12, pnp but looked at again a week later, CORKED though seemed excellent underneath, marked very fine in September 14.
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2/21/2016 - Edclr Likes this wine: 94 Points
See last note...another beautiful bottle.
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2/8/2016 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Complex aromatics of sweet cherry fruit, compost, earth and aniseed. Lovely balance and proportion with a silky mouthfeel. Builds through the palate and has terrific persistence.
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12/31/2015 - cellarid Likes this wine: 95 Points
stunning wine just now starting, i think. another 5 years should open some of the aromatics which are somewhat compact right now. but still a total thrill.
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12/26/2015 - Edclr Likes this wine: 94 Points
Powerful yet elegant which is a rare combo. Bright reds are gone and the earthy and black fruit notes dominate. Very long finish.
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11/23/2015 - Topper wrote: 91 Points
Blackberries and cherries with earth and moss, slightly decomposing. Brown rim. Very good but less so than the last bottle. Probably in a good spot to drink up.
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8/22/2015 - drjb Likes this wine: 94 Points
Dark red with some edge browning. Beautiful nose of black and red cherries, redcurrant, Asian spice, earth. Changed and evolved in the glass. Palate delicious melange of red and black fruits, spice and earthiness with great elegance despite the robustness of the fruit. Fine tannin balance. A delicious CDLR for a birthday dinner !
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6/7/2015 - FYC wrote:
Slightly bricked in color. Lots of stem, cherry, some meat and earth aromas. Nicely balanced with some air. Sweet. Delicious. Wonderful now with some air but also with some room to grow.
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5/27/2015 - lepetitchateau wrote:
This bottle showed big and burly character on the palate, still very tight (had just been opened for ~10 minutes) and in need of many more years of cellar age.
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4/1/2015 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Morey-St Denis Grand Cru Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Very solid indeed, but this really took a good long time to get going. It was clear that we had a wine of quality from first pour, but it just seemed to lack some charm. It was only after half an hour or more in the glass when this began to show well. I must say that the nose was very nice from first pour though – rather reminiscent of Cote Rotie, it showed a complex mélange of earth and bacon and roasted spice and lots of white pepper against a backdrop of deep, dark sweet cherries. Very nice. The palate started a bit tight and lean, with pure but quite one-dimensional tones of dark cherries and blueberries wrapped around a tight, sinewy core of fine, slightly powdery tannins and good acidity. Bit by bit though, this really opened up, first showing a fine spine of earth and mineral, and then some meaty nuances, then gently compelling notes of dark berries and spice pulling away into a long finish. There was some beauty and grace here, if not quite sheer elegance of the 2001 Lucie & Auguste Lignier CdlR that we had alongside. All in all, a superbly crafted wine, but this needs time yet – 5-6 years at least I think.
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3/20/2015 - MikeATL Likes this wine: 95 Points
Lusca with Roy Hersh (Lusca, Atlanta): Stunning. Layers of fruit, a little earthiness and spice, fine tannin and acidity that frames and focuses the complex and shifting flavors, it's a joy to experience that can't be given justice by mere words, or at least by mine.
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12/19/2014 - Corgi wrote:
Felt it was abit gritty in texture.
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9/13/2014 - liber Likes this wine: 96 Points
3rd of 12, perfect fill, not decanted - Slightly translucent dark red not much development, red and black fruits on nose, quite fresh with gamey undertone, assertive, medium palate but very long and persistent, quality fruit, grip and balance, now developing beautifully after tight and difficult youth, just pipped a Rousseau Clos St Jacques 2001 on second night. At least very fine (18.5/20).
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6/8/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Drinking really well. Plenty of floral spice and dense red and black fruits. Lacy in the mouth with latent power and exquisite balance.
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5/30/2014 - ricknat1 wrote: 93 Points
Drinking perfectly, lush, balanced
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5/23/2014 - AndrewSGHall Likes this wine:
While this wine was quite good, it felt like 85% of what it has been in the past and what it ought to be. All the Roche character marks were present and well-knit, but dimmed. No detectable flaws in any way and we enjoyed this wine over some hours.
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5/22/2014 - Topper wrote: 95 Points
What a wine! What power, what burst of cherry flavor, what spice, what volume, what power (did I say that already), what great wine! Truth must be told; Dujac makes a great wine. Maybe save my pennies and buy only this house.
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12/22/2013 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points
Lazy Sunday group Holiday dinner (The Grill Room at Capella Hotel Georgetown): This must be a great Burgundy day as this is also showing so beautifully. Intense jammy red fruits, cherry fruits, sweet spices, flowers, mushroom and earth. Highly toned, nicely delineated and beautifully layered. This wine displays generous forward fruits. Drinking beautifully but will improve.
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8/3/2013 - AndrewSGHall Likes this wine:
(This cork was a seeper.) Higher toned acids than previous bottles and a little more restrained, but plenty of solid Dujac succulence intermingled with that Roche quality.
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7/1/2013 - MikeZ Likes this wine: 97 Points
heavenly!
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3/27/2013 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 93 Points
Alcohol :: 13%
Medium ruby red. Sweet fig, red cherry fruits, savory meatiness, umami and the touch of steaminess which uplifted the aromas and added complexity. Medium - full bodied, the palate is flirting with finesse despite the stunning concentration and power. Medium level of firm but fine-grained tannin that formed the good but polished structure together with the bright acidity backbone. Perfectly poise, with great drive and verve. The mineral infused finished is so long, pure and complex. Wow! All about class and finesse here. 93
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3/22/2013 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Hudelot-Noellat Dinner with Charles Van Canneyt (Sepia - Chicago IL): Spicy aromatic start with lots of seemingly lush red fruit. Leaner red fruit on plate, also nicely spiced with good whole cluster character. A bit shorter than expected on finish, also ever-so-slightly drying. I preferred its 1998 counterpart in the next glass.
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2/2/2013 - dream Likes this wine: 92 Points
This bottle was a little taut and not showing as much as previous bottles but still displays gorgeous cherry fruit and an intense minerality that I love but others found a bit much. Based on this bottle, this needs more time. 92+
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1/15/2013 - lepetitchateau wrote: 96 Points
Wow, a savage black fruit nose that is vital and very old school. This needs some more time but as it ages it will pick up some weight and stuffing and will be amazing. (Daniel, JAL)
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1/8/2013 - lepetitchateau wrote: 94 Points
Black fruit nose, ragged and rough, with hoisin noted. Some firm acidity but sports great chewy fruit density. This wine will not be called elegant anytime soon!
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12/16/2012 - dcwino Likes this wine: 95 Points
A lazy Sunday afternoon gathering –Leroy, Gibourg, Dujac, Drouhin and others (Washington D.C.): Start tight but opens up beautifully, beautiful sweet and sour red fruits, exotic spices and eartt. Excellent concentration without losing purity. Lovely
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7/14/2012 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Still extraordinarily youthful. Dark cherry and blood plum fruits are threaded with liquorice. It breathes to show some floral spice and sweet earth. It is dense but silky and has great posture with a rigid minerally spine. It possesses great balance and exquisite perfume and is very long.
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4/8/2012 - Meeker1 wrote: 95 Points
Wow. Classic Dujac CLDR showing perfectly from the moment the cork was pulled. So pure and elegant, with a seamless lighter than air texture that went on and on. Voluptuous nose of cherry, crushed raspberry spice, broadens on the palate to add hints of cedar and earth, vibrant minerality and touches of dried citrus. Fine, fine tannins that allow the wine's complexity to coat your entire mouth in beauty. Obviously drinks great now! But will age for many years and be a treasure down the road.
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4/8/2012 - maxim wrote: 95 Points
Still young and will develop. But already magnificent.
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2/19/2012 - rwatkin wrote: 94 Points
Lush wine with very complex flavors. Barnyard, cedar, spice with minerality on the finish. The group thought this was the best bottle of the variety we tried. The consensus was that the wine is best drunk now, not years later. We had the second wine of Margaux (2000) that clearly was holding back. Dujac was the champ of our Open That Bottle Night dinner
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11/4/2011 - Burgaddict wrote: 93 Points
Leiden in Burgundy November 2011; 11/3/2011-11/5/2011: A most wonderfull wine. Nose of red fruit with spice and much more, very complex . Lovely taste, clean, mineral, velvety. Long finish. Very, very fine.
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8/11/2011 - lepetitchateau wrote: 93 Points
High-toned nose more fragile than the 1999 Dujac Clos de la Roche - and yet it is very pretty wine with lovely vibrancy. It has a lovely citrus quality.
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6/24/2011 - S1 wrote:
Burgundy Friday--24 juin 2011 (Domaine Dujac with Diana): Geez I love 01s. Now the great fruit is balanced by soft tannins and a hint of seashell.
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3/26/2011 - cellarid wrote: 94 Points
Tremendous wine. Still quite young but giving so much. Nose is compact fresh and ultra pure. Was expecting some CdlR funk but none was to be had. Finishes bright and intense. Serious tannins dominate the finish as dose a healthy dose of liquor and persistence. But this is still overall a lean/mean machine that needs a few more years to unwind.
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1/4/2011 - jimbomatic wrote: 94 Points
When Dujac gets it right there aren’t many better things. This is heroically awesome. Bright, crunchy red cherries, a touch of meatiness, a little iodine and all wrapped in a briny presentation make for an outstanding nose. Sweet red fruit mix with blackberry, dark bread, beef bouillon and stones for a complex and supremely layered mid-palate. Lots of assertive tannins and bright acidity on the finish speak to the utter youthfulness of this wine. Showy without being excessive in any way. A tremendous effort, a beautiful wine and something that will be a winner in the cellar for years. It will likely never achieve any sort of legendary status but this is a barn-burner of a Burgundy. 94 with room to grow.
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9/6/2010 - dream wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful perfumed nose of violets and cherry cream. On the palate the wine is high in acidity and still young but the acidity is balanced by classy and pure cherry fruit. This was singing 3 hours after it was opened. A medium-bodied Dujac CDLR that should age effortlessly and improve for 5-10 more years.
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2/19/2010 - Harrypotter wrote: 92 Points
Aromatically - stemmy, faintly herbaceous, faint green tea, and red fruit. On the palate a very nice full sweet red fruit flavors the only problem is a stemy grainy tannin that is just so faint. Without the stems this wine would have been great. This wine was not as good as the bottle I previously had.
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1/30/2010 - BurgFixx wrote: 94 Points
(From half bottle decanted for 30 minutes). Gorgeous bouquet of dark pinot fruit, mocha and earth. Excellent balance and purity with 01 vintage transparency. Hold for an additional few years especially in 750ml.
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12/26/2009 - thomasito2001 wrote: 94 Points
Felt it was time to check the evolution of 2001 Bourgognes, and wines from Dujac are supposed to be approachable during all their lifetime (and maybe beyond..?) Well, this one was smiling and ready to go right from popping. Dark and seemingly concentrated, seems like extraction was not minimized. The nose is a beauty, typical PN black fruit aromatic profile with a distinctive green/vegetal touch which contributes to the wine personality. Palate is a real beauty: fresh attack, strong, aromatic mid-palate probably reinforced by the stem tannins to give the wine a compact impact which is not idiotypic for 2001, very long length. A point and a real winner, can be waited a couple of years since tertiary elements (meat, bacon) only appeared a few hours after opening.
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12/24/2009 - RCarlyleParker wrote: 94 Points
Awesome! We felt it was near or at peak .
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5/1/2009 - Harrypotter wrote:
Aromatically - intoxicating nose, absolutely beautiful, roses, pain gril, dried cranberry, plum, a little ripe pear, faint clove, tobacco, and slight stemmyness that made it burgundy. On the palate almost perfect, a mineral flavored mix of raspberry, cherry liquer, and a slightly charred flavor with a dash of stemmyness. The wine is very elegant (medium sized) with a nice mid palate sweetness and a slight dusting of tannin. The color is darker than the 2000 cdlr from leroy, and if I recall corectly darker than the 2002 dujac cdlr. I would give it easily another 7 years as there is a good amount of fruit left and not a whole lot of secondary aromas yet. A apic wine. 96-98
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7/6/2008 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
A touch of vitamin B and plenty of oak showing on the nose. There are waves of dark, sweet plumy fruits and some sappy intensity. It is concentrated and sweet and performing like a cask sample at the moment…way too young!
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2/25/2008 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Closed down pretty good. Opened with a lot of reduction funk which did blow off. Tight fruit, a bit waxy and mossy. Lots of structure and delivered some pleasure, but extremely awkward.
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10/26/2007 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Acker Pre-Auction tasting (New York, NY): Tasting, brief note. Lots of expected Dujac spice and perfume with moderate red fruit, moderate intensity. I preferred the Dujac 2002 CSD in tasting.
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10/26/2007 - Eric wrote:
Steak night with Scott Manlin (Sammamish, WA): As closed as the Faiveley Echezeaux was, this was THAT open. A total contrast. Sexy and beguiling from first pour, this was Rayas-link in its piercing, kirschy purity. I know, you can't really compare Grenache to Pinot, but this had that piercing element that just smacked you between the eyes, but the palate was pure silk. One of the standout wines of the evening, this was utterly gorgeous.
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6/19/2006 - cellarid wrote: 94 Points
Well, the wine is tremendous. Initially showing some heat, but then settling in to pristine and somewhat raw dark fruit, soy, and Asian spices -- all soaring from the glass. Very sappy with an unctuous mid-palate. More air shows big and ripe tannins and bright acidity. This wine is very young (duh!). This should be phenomenal and really special in 10+ years. Don't open it!
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7/22/2005 - 128 wrote:
After dinner drink at home.
There was a greenish aspect on the nose which was reflected on the palate. Despite this, the wife and I both liked it.
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2/26/2005 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Short and agressive to start. Took about one hour to fully bloom into rich sappy fruit and developed structure. Great notes of griotte, mineral and cocoa. Very consistent with previous (2/1/05). Brought to Bones, Atlanta and delicious with grits fritters to start dinner.
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1/12/2005 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Wow. This bodes well for where this wine will go. I couldn’t resist popping this one for Phil and we were all awestruck. Great primary griotte fruit with layers of mild oak, currants, chalk and bramble. A couple of hours open revealed deeper layers of earth and Roche meaty/rocky balance. Maybe infanticide, but rewarding.
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1/11/2004 - DCornutt wrote: 94 Points
Somewhat closed but structured for a Dujac.
Tons of material. Persistent on the palate.
Nose is loaded with blackberries and some earth. It is a little muted and closed.
The palate is tannic but the finish is long.
The end of the finish gives a glimpse of the wonderful future. Earthy blackberry finish.
This wine has a big upside above 94. Tremendous CdRoche.
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